What a Blessing

Sorry to keep everyone hanging but time has slipped away from us. We are totally in love and can't pull ourselves away from our beautiful girl. First let me say that the pictures do not do this girl justice. She is stunning. She has a little bit of a cold but is perfect otherwise. She has 2 teeth on the bottom and three on top. She is a mite of a girl. I think she is the youngest and maybe the smallest in our group of 10 families. She can sit up sturdy on her own. She rolls all over the place. She stands when held up. She wiggles her butt in the cutest way and will imitate lots of facial expression and sounds that we make. She says Da Da and honestly looks at Mike when she says it. She says Ma Ma too but just to say it. She watches Mike everywhere he goes. She is absolutely our dancing girl. She boogy woogies any time there is music.

She cried and cried when she was handed to us. She settled a little and then we got out some toys and she laughed at the purple doll.

She wanted me to suck her thumb. How could I say no.

She loves her Daddy. We got all of the items that we sent to her in her care package. Our camera has all of the pictures taken. Can't wait to get them developed! She loves the photo album and I think she has seen it before.

She passed out after fighting it for a long time. Ms. Yu, the director of the Yangchun orphanage told us she always fights sleep. We got a little journal and several pictures from Sandra King (priceless) and one of the entries says she is the only baby up at 4:30 am playing in her bed.

She told us that she loves us in her sleep on the bus. She just did it in sign language.

When we got back to the hotel, she was awake but still lying in my arms. She just layed there like that for a while and looked at us and babbled and smiled. It's hard to catch her smile with the camera. We'll have to work on that.

She loves the fussy buzzer thing. She loves the music, lights and vibration. She also loves to look at herself in the mirror and there is one on the back.

We are all exhausted. She has had a bottle, she has played and has a clean diaper. We put her in her crib and she loved it. She smiled and rolled around just a pleasant as can be and then fell right off to sleep. We left her in her clothes that she came to us in. She had just had a bath when we got her. I hated to take everything that was familiar to her so we'll let her keep these clothes on til morning. We are beyond happy and look forward to every tomorrow with our sweet girl.
We thank everyone for your comments and love reading them. It is so nice to know that you are all with us on this journey. For all of you who have asked us to give her a chew or kiss for you, consider it done! Until next time...Jill, Mike and Maya